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Five tracks, taught in order

Charts come first because everything else is read on one. Risk comes before anything you would call a strategy. Every lesson is free and stays free.

10 lessons · 10 published

Charts

Everything else in trading is read on a chart, so this track comes first. It starts with what a single candle actually records and ends with reading structure across two timeframes at once.

  1. 01 One candle holds four numbersOpen, high, low, close — and why the wick does more work than the body. 7 min
  2. 02 What a trend actually isHigher highs and higher lows, defined precisely enough to disagree with. 8 min
  3. 03 Support and resistance, defined properlyWhere levels come from, and why most people draw them wrong. 9 min
  4. 04 When support becomes supplyA level that stops price on the way down often stops it again from the other side. 9 min
  5. 05 Volume behind the moveParticipation, read underneath price. 8 min

7 lessons · 7 published

Options

An option is a contract with rules. Once the payoff is drawn and the greeks are understood as rates of change, most of the mystery disappears.

  1. 01 Read the payoff before the priceMaximum loss, maximum gain and breakeven, in one picture. 9 min
  2. 02 What you are paying forIntrinsic and time value, separated properly. 8 min
  3. 03 Delta, in plain languageHow much the option moves when the underlying moves. 8 min
  4. 04 Theta and the shape of decayWhy the last week behaves nothing like the first. 9 min
  5. 05 Vega and implied volatilityThe part that moves your option when price does not. 10 min

5 lessons · 5 published

Risk

The least glamorous track, and the one that decides outcomes. It is placed before any strategy on purpose.

  1. 01 Sizing a position properlyFrom capital and stop distance to quantity — the whole calculation. 9 min
  2. 02 Expectancy over a hundred tradesHit rate and reward-to-risk, turned into one number. 8 min
  3. 03 The arithmetic of a drawdownWhy a 50% loss needs a 100% gain, and what that means for size. 7 min
  4. 04 Risk of ruinThe probability nobody calculates before they need it. 9 min
  5. 05 What costs really takeBrokerage, STT, slippage and impact, added up honestly. 8 min

3 lessons · 3 published

Psychology

Not motivational writing. The specific, repeatable ways a decision process fails under pressure, and the structural fixes that survive a bad day.

  1. 01 The plan and the momentWhy rules written calmly are broken quickly. 8 min
  2. 02 The trade after the lossThe most expensive trade most people take. 7 min
  3. 03 A journal that is worth keepingWhat to record so that it changes behaviour. 9 min

3 lessons · 3 published

Tax & paperwork

The part nobody teaches until it is due. General information only — your own filing should be checked with a qualified professional.

  1. 01 Why F&O is business incomeAnd what follows from that classification. 8 min
  2. 02 How turnover is computedThe number that decides whether an audit applies. 9 min
  3. 03 Carrying losses forwardWhat can be set off against what, and for how long. 8 min